Breakfast with Lydia Matzka-Saboi / Frühstück mit Lydia Matzka-Saboi

Lydia Matzka-Saboi lives in the wonderful city of Vienna. She writes a lot as a freelance journalist, has a great passion for photography and has visited many countries. At present, she is working for GLOBAL 2000 – the Austrian environmental protection organisation.

Lydia has been invited to our Components-breakfast by Nina Koel from Amsterdam. Both have know each other since childhood and are now living in different countries. Via Components, their paths have crossed again in the virtual world.

What do you usually have for breakfast?Espresso. A lot of espresso. And if I have time a roll with jam or a chocolate croissant.

What is your favourite breakfast place in your town/city?Most of the time I have breakfast at home. Sometimes also in Vienna’s museum’s quarter.

What do people like most about your town/city and what do you like most about your town/city?Vienna was for me like love on first sight and is the perfect city to live in. I like the multicultural flair, the coffeehouses, the museums and the urban lifestyle. I can calm down being with my family for instance at the Prater or at a place called Alte Donau.

What are you currently working on?I’m working for one oft he most exciting NGO in Austria. I’m a spokeswoman at GLOBAL 2000. Now and then I’m also a press photographer.

If you had your own museum which artists would be in your collection?Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Anton Corbijn, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh and many more.

What are the social media platforms that you use for your work and how do you use it?Facebook and Twitter, daily.

Who would you invite to breakfast from Components? What would you ask her?Melanie Häfner